Early Modern Civil Discourses (Early Modern Literature in History)
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scottish--among them, conduct manuals, colonial tracts, diaries, letters, dialogues, poetry, drama, chronicles--by English, Welsh and Scots men and women in and about the Atlantic archipelago. It explores the many meanings of civility in the early modern period; it recovers some of the lost associations of civility as well as the complex use of the adjectives "civil" and "barbarous" in cultural and colonial encounters.
About the Author
Jennifer Richards is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle.
Early Modern Civil Discourses (Early Modern Literature in History),Jennifer Richards,Palgrave Macmillan,1403917361,16th century,Early modern, 1500-1700,English literature,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Europe - Great Britain - General,Great Britain,History,History and criticism,History: World,Literature and society,Modern - 17th Century,Social change in literature,Sociology,Sociology - General,British Isles,Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries,Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries,Scottish Gaelic,United Kingdom, Great Britain
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